Area Scanner Safety Guard Reference Design

This design helps you to create an area scanner or safety guard application for automation, using 60-GHz mmWave sensors

With the widespread growth of factory automation, there is a greater need for smarter incident management solutions that can detect the movement of people and objects around heavy machinery while maintaining productivity. Using TI’s 60-GHz mmWave sensors, both presence detection and the ability to gauge the object’s trajectory and speed are enabled. Thus, a system can be created that can dynamically adjust the safety zone’s size depending on the object’s speed of approach, alert before a safety zone is breached while also ignoring objects whose trajectory is not towards the zone.

Area scanner reference design using mmWave sensors

In factory automation and process control, area scanners or safety guards check on machines and equipment to prevent or reduce access to dangerous areas of the machine.

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Here we discuss a reference design that helps you to create an area scanner or safety guard application using TI’s IWR6843, based on 60-GHz mmWave radio-frequency complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (RFCMOS) technology.

Using TI 60-GHz mmWave sensors, presence detection, as well as the ability to gauge the object’s trajectory and speed, enables dynamic adjustment of the safety zone’s size depending on the object’s speed of approach, as well as the ability to predict before a safety zone is breached.